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Glimmer of Obama's Character as He Visits Grandma
ABCNews ^ | 10-21-08 | Russell Goldman

Posted on 10/21/2008 12:16:36 PM PDT by KJC1

Taking Time to Visit Sick Grandmother Could Help Obama Connect With Voters

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Leaving the campaign with only two weeks to go would appear to leave the field to his rival, Sen. John McCain, during the crucial homestretch of the presidential race. But it also has the potential of showing Obama's family side at a time when both candidates are under constant attack by their opponents.

Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, the former director of the Lincoln, Hoover, Eisenhower, Reagan and Ford presidential libraries, said, "Never in the modern era has a candidate done anything like this," referring to Obama's decision to stop campaigning during the last stretch.

"For a lot of people, this will be a defining moment," Smith said

"This can only help Obama," said Torie Clarke, an ABC News political consultant. "Everyone can understand the need to visit a sick relative. There is no doubt that this was a decision made for personal reasons, but it gives his campaign the opportunity to remind voters of his unique past and heritage."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: 2008; antichrist; birthcertificate; obama; obamafamily
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If this article isn't an example of bias, I don't know what is. The gist of the whole thing is: Obama's decision is purely personal, not a political ploy...but (and more importantly while pretending it's a by-product)...it could really help him politically!

Another example of Hannity being right when he says the media officially died this year.

1 posted on 10/21/2008 12:16:39 PM PDT by KJC1
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Obama went home to get his forged birth certificate planted in the system

He has no use for his whitey grandma.


2 posted on 10/21/2008 12:18:35 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (I will not vote for Obama not because he is black, but because he is RED)
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Grandma, H.E. double toothpicks! He’s there because of the birth certificate flap.


3 posted on 10/21/2008 12:18:44 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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"Glimmer of Obama's Character as He Visits Grandma"

Hey MSM! How 'bout you guys do some real work and give American voters a "glimmer" of who the heck Obama is!

4 posted on 10/21/2008 12:19:17 PM PDT by avacado (Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate)
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Unreal.
Bless his grandmother’s heart, but just wow...
then there’s the whole birth certificate thing - ABC, is that a “glimmer of his character,” too?


5 posted on 10/21/2008 12:19:26 PM PDT by GnuHere
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Today is Protest the Media day! Send emails and acorns to the media.

Visit http://www.protestthemedia.com for more information.

Spread the word!


6 posted on 10/21/2008 12:19:29 PM PDT by JPII Be Not Afraid (McCain/Palin 08 - Evil triumps when good people do nothing!! - www.protestthemedia.com Oct 21st)
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yuck

i just threw up in my mouth a little


7 posted on 10/21/2008 12:19:35 PM PDT by housedeep
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What kind of drivel is this. He’s going back to upset Andy Martin’s plans to expose him.


8 posted on 10/21/2008 12:19:40 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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I heard on the news that 0’s grand mother was critically ill... it seems to me, if my grand mother who raised me was in that bad of health, I would of skipped the last campaign and got on the first plane to be with her... is he throwing her under the bus again, even while being crtically ill..


9 posted on 10/21/2008 12:19:53 PM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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I don’t want to read it. If it were McCain or Palin, it would be another story like McCain suspending his campaign to go to Washington and how he got bad press on it.


10 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:05 PM PDT by Aliska
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And Obama will still get more coverage than McCain. McCain will probably be criticized for not joining BO in suspending his campaign. That heartless republican really doesn't care about old people, but BO does, he is just so wonderful.

What a load of crap.

12 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:15 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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Can this be another way of the OBAMA political machine to get the Messiah’s name in the headlines and control the NEWS CYCLE?


13 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:15 PM PDT by ethics
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Look its nice that he is going to visit his Grandmother and I am sure he is not doing it to score points but he does do it with the knowledge he will not be losing any points either.

His 150Million raised in sept will pay for enough adds that nobody will miss him not to mention all the surrogates he has running around..


14 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:18 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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The media is totally delusional.


15 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:23 PM PDT by jersey117
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Phheeeeeew. 99% of Americans who could afford to buy a plane ticket would be there with sick grandma too. This ain’t nothing special.


16 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:42 PM PDT by DemonDeac
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...and we wait with bated breath as “that one” emerges from an endearing visit with “the typical white woman.”


17 posted on 10/21/2008 12:20:44 PM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle (Country first!)
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To: Constitution Day
"Everyone can understand the need to visit a sick relative. There is no doubt that this was a decision made for personal reasons, but it gives his campaign the opportunity to remind voters of his unique past and heritage."

That and to thank Tonya Harding for working at grandma's assisted care facility.

18 posted on 10/21/2008 12:21:30 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: KJC1
Stop it!

I'm getting dizzy!

19 posted on 10/21/2008 12:21:39 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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Character my ass. After a week of him and plugs making gaffs, their handlers are trying to remove them from the campaign circuit while they are ahead. It’s that simple.


20 posted on 10/21/2008 12:21:41 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Reagan is back, and this time he's a woman.)
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